FIT4190 · Work Integrated Learning - Industry placement

Overview

FIT4190 is a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) unit that allows eligible students to receive academic credit for a self-sourced industry internship over the summer and winter teaching periods. The unit is designed to integrate professional workplace experience with academic reflection, industry evaluation, and structured learning outcomes. You complete a paid internship placement totalling 230 hours, normally undertaken over 6 consecutive weeks full-time. Placements must be approved by the Faculty prior to commencement and must meet program requirements relating to supervision, relevance to IT, and workplace conditions. Throughout the placement, you are supported through academic check-ins and assessment activities including professional reflections, workplace evaluations, and a final presentation. FIT4190 provides you with the opportunity to develop industry experience, professional skills, and workplace readiness while progressing through your degree.

Areas of study: Software Engineering

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Set achievable and measurable goals;
2. Identify useful theoretical knowledge that has been covered in prior coursework and knowledge that has not yet been covered;
3. Develop and practice professional skills and attitudes including: initiative, communication, time-management and teamwork skills in a business environment;
4. Develop solutions to business problems using information technology and other techniques;
5. Prepare documentation and written reports of a professional standard;
6. Address performance improvement opportunities identified by industry supervisors and self-assess opportunities for personal development.
7. Apply engineering synthesis and design processes in a business and information technology environment;
8. Evaluate and critique the engineering approaches undertaken during the conduct and management of the projects.

Workload

Students on placement are deployed full-time (36 hours per week) for 6 weeks with an approved industry partner of the work professional placement program in a role within the company.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.